Education Officers (2 Positions)
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Department: Education Program
Location / Duty Station: Ratanakiri and Stung Treng, includes extensive travel to school projects in remote communities
Role Purpose / Summary
The Education officer will provide coordination and technical support to target school principal, district education officer to effectively implement project activities in line with the school development annual work plan, targets and budget of project activities including implementation of school transition, capacity building and community engagement workshops under their assigned school target/community. He/she will be responsible to the overall engagement and coordination works at the commune and school level through strengthening functionality of school management committee for improving the quality of education as well as sustain education services in their target community.
Reports To Senior Education Officer
Type of Contract Full – Time Unspecify Duration Contract (UDC)
Working Hours 40 hours per week
Remuneration Negotiable according to qualification and experiences
Benefits
- Travel and Medical Insurance
- NSFF and seniority payment
- Communications
- Public Holiday according to labour law
- Program Delivery, Monitoring and Reporting:
- Deliver the school development programme in UWS schools, building the capacity and supporting school principals, government and community teachers, school support committees (SSCs), girls’ clubs, mothers’ groups and commune councils to provide a quality and inclusive education.
- Collaborate with school principals and SSCs to develop annual school development plans.
- Build UWS' network and collaboration with various educational stakeholders such as government officials, NGOs, international organisations, and community.
- Actively participate in coordination meetings, working groups, and consultative forums with local government bodies to exchange knowledge, share experiences, and advocate for quality education.
- Responsible for reporting, monitoring and evaluating school development, ensuring timely completion of quarterly school development reports, and other relevant data as requested by the MEAL team.
- Monitor and track individual students’ learning outcomes and progress, empowering teachers to tailor teaching and learning strategies.
- Build the capacity, skills and train teachers, schools management, and community bodies and school staff to effectively govern and sustain schools to gradually transition schools to community.
- Engage communities and work closely with parents, community leaders, and local organisations to increase the awareness, encourage involvement, create partnership that promote and support educational initiatives in project activities.
- Collect case studies to capture lessons learned and good practices to advocate for quality and inclusive education.
- To adhere to UWS’ policies and procedures, such as the UWS Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Inclusion Policy, and to provide school staff with training on the policies and procedures.
- Program Quality Assurance:
- Support MEAL team to conduct UWS School Development Report and other M&E tools to monitor teaching quality
- Conduct monitoring trips and spot checks across target schools for quality checking and to identify EO’s M&E training needs.
- Coordinate and participate in development of quarterly reports for provincial education departments and for UWS Cambodia country reports in targeted schools.
- Support the Transition team to implement and coordinate schools transition process within the target schools by developing clear schools transition action plans setting (pre, during, and post transition) and keep tracking the progress/challenges by working closely with EOs and key stakeholders to maintain good practice and implementation of school transition.
- Mobilise community resources by actively engaging and collaborating with local authorities and commune level for mobilising local funding for the schools developments, inclusive education.
- Support EOs to build the capacity of SSCs and school principals to develop clear and achievable Annual Operation Plans that respond to the needs of communities and improve teaching quality and quality transition.
- Child Safeguarding and Reporting
- Support the National and regional CPS led to respond to cause for concerns in the province in collaboration with local authority and local authority children’s social care services.
- Building school teachers/teachers/principal and government partners capacity to deliver CPS interventions targets.
- Adhere to the guidelines laid out in the UWS Child Protection Policy,
- Collaborate with the National Inclusion Lead Support Education Officers to implement inclusion and child protection and safeguarding procedures and policies in schools.
- Any other reasonable tasks as required by the line manager.
- EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES
- ESSENTIAL
- Is a Cambodian national
- Bachelor’s degree in the field of education, social sciences, community development and related fields
- Experience of child protection and safeguarding and GEDSI related projects
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to effectively adapt information for different audiences.
- Extensive experience building school staff and community body capacity and delivering training to improve education and teaching quality.
- Computer literate.
- Basic level of English is advantageous.
- Persistent, enthusiastic, adaptable and willing to take on new ideas and initiatives. Is patient, understanding, and a team player.
- Is prepared to extensively travel to remote communities within Cambodia, including at short notice.
- DESIRABLE
- Female candidates are strongly encouraging to apply
- A degree in education and have at least three years experience working in the education sector in particular primary education.
- Good facilitation and communication skills, in particular working with sub-national government
- Good documentations skills and be able to write report in English
- Sound interesting in development works in particular primary education in remote areas
- Flexible and Open-minded person, willing to learn new things
- High commitment and demonstrates a good accountability
